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ThomasPaine posted:Obviously I don't actually want it to happen because mass death and all that, but sometimes I do very much feel like I'm the long term the UK would benefit from being on the losing side of a particularly vicious war, if only to knock the weirdo boomer larpers down a peg or two It is extremely telling how nationalist pro-military gammon types start frothing about the second world war or occasionally the Falklands but go very quiet about some of the other conflicts the UK has been involved in since 1945 other than the most basic "support our boys, lets not revisit history" context. Hard to make the Malayan Emergency, Suez or the Troubles look good even in a very sanitised history.
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Feb 24, 2022 12:08
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ThomasPaine posted:I mean not really, the UK itself was never remotely threatened and we never had the taliban marching down the streets of Birmingham, much though certain right wing figures would have you believe otherwise. The UK went through a mass casualty event over the past 2 years and the only reflection that happened was "open er up!"
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Danger - Octopus! posted:It is extremely telling how nationalist pro-military gammon types start frothing about the second world war or occasionally the Falklands but go very quiet about some of the other conflicts the UK has been involved in since 1945 other than the most basic "support our boys, lets not revisit history" context. Hard to make the Malayan Emergency, Suez or the Troubles look good even in a very sanitised history. Tbh I reckon a lot of them earnestly believe a stab in the back myth about the troubles - soft labour surrendered, what we should have done was send more troops and shoot more unarmed civilians and probably invade the Republic for good measure. Z the IVth posted:The UK went through a mass casualty event over the past 2 years and the only reflection that happened was "open er up!" Yeah but they're not really the same are they. It's less about people dying, they don't care about that, and more about some external power showing them that they're not as 'ard or as special or as wise as they think they are. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Feb 24, 2022 |
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Feb 24, 2022 12:14
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Good day to bury some bad news! Best way to grow the economy is simply to indebt its citizens. very smart country
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ThomasPaine posted:Yeah but they're not really the same are they. It's less about people dying, they don't care about that, and more about some external power showing them that they're not as 'ard or as special or as wise as they think they are. If we're going with the stab in the back myth they transitioned immediately to blaming the yooths for covid and also everyone is too soft anyway I would rather die than not go to a garden center and then a lot of them did die of garden center and survivorship bias kept the rest of them saying exactly the same thing. So I am not sure that literal russians marching down the street shooting people with AKs would elicit anything other than a column about how this is jiminy crombyn's fault and the yooths didn't do their part to defend are glouriouse britaine.
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I got russian (and belorussian, and bosnian) coworkers and they're joking about if they should go down there in a pidgin mix of swedish and russian. "So we heading down or what?" "Which side?!" "Well I think it'll be easier on the russian one" "LOL" "loving putin though"
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His Divine Shadow posted:I got russian (and belorussian, and bosnian) coworkers and they're joking about if they should go down there in a pidgin mix of swedish and russian. Posted this in the other thread but we outsourced one of our dev teams to Kiev. As of yesterday they were joking about dentist appointments, but this morning they've all gone silent. They've been told (though I'm not sure if it's by the company or the government) to evacuate Kiev immediately, preferably to somewhere outside Ukraine. We know one guy has made it to Germany but nothing from anyone else yet.
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Feb 24, 2022 12:31
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I still have the NHS Covid app running on my phone (for all the good its done) and it just buzzed me a new notification 'COVID-19 Restrictions have been removed in England' Woo, we beat the pandemic guys!
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I still have the NHS Covid app running on my phone (for all the good its done) and it just buzzed me a new notification Let me welcome you to Level 2 of ''The Game Of life!'' 
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Guavanaut posted:They've been back and forth on "Heat pump installer: I use all wood stoves to heat my own home because heat pumps are babby garbage" and "Senior Michael Gove aide when Michael Gove was relevant to the environment: wood stoves are worse than traffic and kill children" in their sponsored articles with enough regularity that it must be some kind of internal culture war on top of the usual clickbait both sides. Many years ago I looked at heat pumps (as the current house is oil). Ground source is ace-best, as it is effectively recovering slow solar heat from the environment. You need a good half-acre of farmland to make it work, and a shitload of cash. Air-source is basically reverse air-con, and comes with the large loud compressor that will piss off your neighbours. In spring/autumn, you get reasonable efficiency from the unit, but in winter when you need it, the efficiency drops. Still better than pure electric heating. But - none of the heatpumps, or even solar thermal, gets very hot. Hot-water tap hot mostly, so they truly suck at running radiators. However, if you are planning on building a house, then first get a good acre or so. Build your house, and install underfloor heating everywhere, and then you can run an efficient ground source heat pump setup. In the mother of all Vimes boots analogies, you can heat for an average of ~1/3 of the electric unit price per KW, which is pretty drat good. Whole setup will easily cost you over half a million, so your time to recoup is... well... *cough* ...a 'few' lifetimes. Attempting to do this effectively on virtually any existing housing stock is of course impossible. But the reasons why are deeper than surface, and there's money to be made selling this stuff, as people will do it in the belief that it will 'help'. And of course there will be more to be made in 5 years selling the claim management services.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I still have the NHS Covid app running on my phone (for all the good its done) and it just buzzed me a new notification So it's "The Purge" but with COVID laws, great
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How is it possible to be this clueless about what is going on? https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1496811715950002176
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I still have the NHS Covid app running on my phone (for all the good its done) and it just buzzed me a new notification Enjoyable post-username combo
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Oh hang on. I’ve found an even better one https://twitter.com/sophielouisecc/status/1496810074655838211
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Can't believe the russians shot down elton john.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Let me welcome you to Level 2 of ''The Game Of life!'' More like New Game +.
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OwlFancier posted:So I am not sure that literal russians marching down the street shooting people with AKs would elicit anything other than a column about how this is jiminy crombyn's fault and the yooths didn't do their part to defend are glouriouse britaine. We deserve this, come come nuclear bomb, etc.
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Just came into my head there, what about Eurovision this year and Ukraine? So I did some googling, and there is a story here if you want to read about this years entry. They only confirmed the group 2 DAYS ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2022 And for the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foqgjD_SNss Can see this getting all 12s just as a gently caress you to Russia.
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 \ "Cor, imagine how bad this would be under jeremee flippin' corbyn, eh?"
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https://twitter.com/philipproudfoot/status/1496779691763531781?s=21 https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1496815235558223873?s=21 Scratch a liberal…
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OzyMandrill posted:Attempting to do this effectively on virtually any existing housing stock is of course impossible. But the reasons why are deeper than surface, and there's money to be made selling this stuff, as people will do it in the belief that it will 'help'. And of course there will be more to be made in 5 years selling the claim management services. You'll probably still need a supplementary source during the deepest days of winter though, and with gas prices predicted to rise massively that's where the whole case for "idk maybe running a wood stove for a few days during midwinter isn't the biggest social evil" comes in. The real nuclear deterrent is the energy infrastructure we should have done in the 90s. 
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/philipproudfoot/status/1496779691763531781?s=21 Wait, are you criticizing the ones supporting charity for a country facing an unprovoked invasion by an imperialist power or what?
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OzyMandrill posted:Many years ago Air-source has changed a bit since then. The lower operating temperature is fine if you oversize your radiators and those are cheap in comparison to the actual unit. Also the outdoor compressor - ours at least - is extremely quiet. I've been stood next to it when it kicks in and it's not particularly noisy. We've just gone through a chilly winter and it's fine. Our hot water is maintained at 50C and it kicks up to over 60C once a month to prevent Legionnaires. We installed underfloor heating downstairs when we moved in and have decent insulation thanks to the previous owner so we're pretty much an ideal case. We paid approx £14,900 for the system and installation and the RHI payments come in at £14,300 over 7 years. Essentially, we got off gas for the price of a boiler. The only gas we have now is the rings on the cooker. Cost is hard to calculate at the moment because we have an issue with our plumbing which needs sorting out (a single remote radiator must be left on, or the system sees a blockage), plus we moved to an electric car. I suspect it's noticeably more expensive to run. e: wordage Biggus Dickus fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Feb 24, 2022 |
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He'd loving better, the inbred babbling worthless sack of trash.
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He will go by Alexander the Liberator to sound less Russian.Biggus Dickus posted:Air-source has changed a bit since then. The lower operating temperature is fine if you oversize your radiators and radiators are cheap in comparison to the actual unit.
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"We are going to hobble them economically by surrendering the UK to them.'
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smellmycheese posted:Oh hang on. I’ve found an even better one A very tiny part of me feels kinda sorry for the handful of edgy right wing teenagers who keep getting buttered up by the reactionary media. We all had our dumbass Exceptionally Wrong phases back in the day but while were mostly allowed to forget it they never will. Social media is one part of this, but they're actually being courted and made to feel as if they're respected, serious political commentators by ideologically driven outlets desperate for young people who'll push the right line. They have no idea how little anyone outside of that tiny bubble takes them seriously. When they get a few years behind them and realise how dumb they've been being it's going to be brutally humiliating for them to look back on it all and realise how silly they actually looked and how nakedly they were being cynically lied to and exploited.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I still have the NHS Covid app running on my phone (for all the good its done) and it just buzzed me a new notification I just received an email containing this info: Please remove your NHS COVID-19 QR code poster and other check in systems As people no longer need to check in, please remove any NHS COVID-19 QR code posters or any systems that you use to collect contact details at your venue. We had a poster because most of the flats are occupied by elderly (over 80) people but as far as I know, noone ever used it! Vincent Van Goatse posted:Wait, are you criticizing the ones supporting charity for a country facing an unprovoked invasion by an imperialist power or what? I think what he is suggesting is that mixing humanitarian and military charities together in the same post gives a link in peoples' (eg Russian military) minds between humanitarian aid (food, water, meds) and military (weapons, tech etc) and as a result can hamper (or stop) humanitarian aid from being allowed through. So Proudfoot is asking that just humanitarian charities should appear in that list to keep a clear separation. (This is how I read the post anyway!)
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I think experience would suggest that actually they will just keep having terrible ideas and have to look for different sources of funding for them until they die.
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Idk whereas most people can grow and develop and realise they used to be dumb, I think that would be a lot harder if you were a teenager with media channels you perceive as being very professional and serious fawning over you and telling you you're very smart and cool for having stupid ideas. The need for approval would I think, especially at that age, make it much easier to ignore all the cognitive dissonance.
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ThomasPaine posted:A very tiny part of me feels kinda sorry for the handful of edgy right wing teenagers who keep getting buttered up by the reactionary media. We all had our dumbass Exceptionally Wrong phases back in the day but while were mostly allowed to forget it they never will. Social media is one part of this, but they're actually being courted and made to feel as if they're respected, serious political commentators by ideologically driven outlets desperate for young people who'll push the right line. They have no idea how little anyone outside of that tiny bubble takes them seriously. When they get a few years behind them and realise how dumb they've been being it's going to be brutally humiliating for them to look back on it all and realise how silly they actually looked and how nakedly they were being cynically lied to and exploited. Lol, Tom Harwood gets paid to do some ludicrous morning show on GB News now, I don't think he regrets a thing. And he got his start in the most literal and specific way possible, doing this: Guavanaut posted:There's wrong, and then there's
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